Well not real new...I put a cheapo Jensen in the yellow mav. with 6x9 fosgates in the back and round fosegates in the kick panels. Sounds decent. I do not want it to be to loud....then I could not hear the rumble of that beefie 250
Agreed ...."cheapo" was more directed to the price compared to the high market stuff you can buy now a days.
With Audio, you dont always get what you pay for. There are specifications to what you need and how you need it. All i have to say is be carefull with the speakers. A different hed unit with high end speakers can blow the speakers or short out the car.
If you have the speakers running directly to the hed unit i would recomend an amp to split them just incase the speakers short and then all you have to replace is a fuse.
I have never had a problem using about any speakers with any brand hand unit... My '72 has a Pioneer head unit with Sony speakers, no amp. It's been like this since July of '05. I play it loud and have never had a problem out of it.
That is because you run the speakers staight to the hed unit. Its always a good rule of thumb to have 2 of the same brand equipment. ex. 1 pioneer hed unit, with pioneer speaker, with an amp or with out. 1 Alpine hed unit with Alpine amp, and sony speakers. Its not realy a big problem until you start getting into the real high end stuff like Bose, Infinity, and JL that you have to worry about mix and matching
Maybe with super high end stuff, but with regular stuff I don't think it matters. I'll bet very few custom systems out there are all the same brand components.
mixing brands I worked as an installer(before I finished my electronics degree) for years at a high end shop, and we mixed brands all the time! Different companies are known for their abilities with different products.. we used Eclipse head units with either Precision Power or Pheonix Gold amplifiers, MB Quart high end, and usually JL Audio subs. This is very common. The system in my Fairlane is Alpine head unit, Precision Power amplifiers, Infinity 6.5's in the front, Infinity 3.5's for center channel, Infinity 4x6's in the rear, and Profile 12's for subs. I have used nearly every high end brand there is at one time or another, and never had a problem with speakers attached directly to a deck "shorting" it out! The only time I have seen anything similiar to this is when you try to replace a head unit on a car with a factory Bose system, as they run odd impedance speakers and factory high current amplifiers. If you are starting from scratch, feel free to mix and match!
You have all of that in your Fairlane. DANG!! My friends and i wired up a 10 inch Explode 1100 watt, with 800 watt amp, and replaced the Fire Chicken (fire bird) Monsoon system with Infinity speakers. and we blew the first sub because of the POS head unit. then we put in a new Pioneer Head unit and new explode sub, the sound out of a single 10 is amazing. I dont know if it is me but every time i deal with sony head units they short out the amp or the sub, or it could just be me being 17 and learned by watching other people and not getting any hands on. But the second one always works I had the same problem with a 99 boni. Explode head unit. 1000 watt amp, and 1600 watt Rockford Fosgate sub stage II. wired it up. played for 1 day and blew the system up. next day put in an Apline Head Unit and new sub with amp. Never had a problem until they owner tuned it to -4, and +6 on the amp and blew the sub on a bass test. IMO forget 12s and 15s get 10s if you decide to get some subs.
I put a Sony Xplode head unit in my dad's '95 Mustang GT back in 2003. Never had a problem out of it although I think my Pioneer sounds better.
Sony Xplode just dont like me. Just not my cup of tea. Alpine are the best. And Pioneer are what i stick to.
